by Jonathan Cook
www.dissidentvoice.org
July 25, 2006
This week I had the pleasure to appear on American radio, on the Laura Ingraham show, pitted against David Horowitz, a
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Canada and the war between Israel and Hizbollah
by Chris Arsenault
The Dominion
July 25, 2006
As missiles from Israeli F-16s rained down upon Lebanon, Fredericton resident Yousseff Nakhale was trying desperately to make contact with his wife and daughter who are living in the country.
“I walked through the deserted city centre of Beirut yesterday and it reminded more than ever of a film lot, a place of dreams too beautiful to last, a phoenix from the ashes of civil war whose plumage was so brightly coloured that it blinded its own people.”
As Mexico Awaits Judges
Charles Belhumeur
July 19, 2006
There’s an article in the [Regina] Leader Post today on the third page titled “Canadians wary of aboriginal ‘entitlements’”. If you’re not burdened with denial and guilt over this country’s origins the Ipsos Reid survey described in the article is quite a revealing piece of work. If you’re aboriginal with half a wit in your head there was really no news or revelations from the survey. It’s all gotten so tired and commonplace that it’s all become rather weary cliches for aboriginals.
As always, the mirror on the non-aborginal side is darkly stained, badly distorting the view. The mainstream once again demonstrates a profound lack of capacity for ethical symetry.
The west appears to insist that only one side in the conflict is able to intervene militarily across borders. That will never be accepted
Ahmad Samih Khalidi
Tuesday July 18, 2006
The Guardian
Much has been made in recent days - at the G8 summit and elsewhere - of Israel’s right to retaliate against the capture of its soldiers, or attacks on its troops on its own sovereign territory. Some, such as those in the US administration, seem to believe that Israel has an unqualified licence to hit back at its enemies no matter what the cost. And even those willing to recognise that there may be a problem tend to couch it in terms of Israel’s “disproportionate use of force” rather than its basic right to take military action.
But what is at stake here is not proportionality or the issue of self-defence, but symmetry and equivalence. Israel is staking a claim to the exclusive use of force as an instrument of policy and punishment, and is seeking to deny any opposing state or non-state actor a similar right. It is also largely succeeding in portraying its own “right to self-defence” as beyond question, while denying anyone else the same. And the international community is effectively endorsing Israel’s stance on both counts.
Check out Robert Fisk’s daily reports on the Israel-Hizbollah conflict. It would not be the slightest exaggeration to say that Fisk sets the standard for reporting on war. And he has been based in Lebanon for years — if anything is “required reading” at this moment in time, surely it’s this.
Lessons from the Un-Gore of Mexico
July 14, 2006
By Greg Palast
www.GregPalast.com
[Watch "Florida con Salsa," Palast's 15-minute investigative report from Mexico City for Democracy Now!]
The Exit polls said he won, but the “official” tally took his victory away. His supporters found they were scrubbed off voter rolls. Violence and intimidation kept even more of his voters away from the polls. Hundreds of thousands of ballots supposedly showed no choice for president — like ballots with hanging chads.
And the officials in charge of this suspect election refused to re-count those votes in public. Everyone knew full well a fair count would certainly change the outcome.
You’ve heard this story before: Gore 2000. Kerry 2004.
But Lopez Obrador 2006 is made out of very different stuff than the scarecrow candidates who, oddly, call themselves “Democrats.”
Democracy Now!
07/14/06
MIT professor Noam Chomsky says the US and Israel are punishing Palestinians for electing Hamas, and says Hezbollah’s capture of Israeli soldiers subjects Lebanese “to terror and possible extreme disaster” from Israeli strikes. We also get comments from Middle East analyst Mouin Rabbani in Jerusalem.
By J. Wight
July 2006
Israel
